A man suspects that his life is merely a dream, and attempts to escape from it through tantric sex and astral travel.

Honorable Mention, 2017 Canada International Film Festival

Semi-Finalist, 2017 Nashville Film Festival

Blurbs

Other innovative recent incursions into the horror film genre include Eduardo Soto-Falcon's short film DHAMPIRA.-Pop Culture Latin America! (book, ABC-Clio)

​​DHAMPIRA - Eduardo Soto-Falcon's modern gothic short follows the beautiful Mara as she falls under the spell of a mysterious vampire, stylish with a very satisfying finale.-Sex Gore Mutants (genre magazine)

The test movie allowed Eduardo to experiment with camera angles to convey both character and atmosphere more effectively than he could with just the screenplay. The look of the sets in particular is quite extraordinary.-Moviestorm (3D animation & previs)

With the set-up of the eroticism between the two friends we are excited on a primal level to watch the events of this scene unfold [...] It has the potential to be an enthralling nugget of cinema. -BlueCat Analysis

These books cite the short films DHAMPIRA and EL PAJE.

Eduardo Soto-Falcon

Profile

I am an International and multicultural writer and filmmaker based in Canada and shaped by diverse Latin American and European influences. After growing up immersed in classic Hollywood, Mexican and International cinema, I graduated summa cum laude in Cinema & Photography, along with a minor in Writing, from Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY).

My short films have been shown at 30 film festivals around the world and on TV (including Cinemax, Mexican National TV and the US syndicated show SPROCKETS AND SPLICES). An animatic storyboard of one of my scripts was one of 11 semi-finalists competing for a $100,000 USD prize at Amazon Studios. Over the last few years, I have concentrated on screenwriting. In 2017, I entered several scripts to International competitions and they all reached semi-finals or finals at least once, for a total of 25 placements, including the second round of selection at the Sundance Institute.

I see writing and directing as two halves of the storytelling process, so I write as a filmmaker and cinephile. Every script I choose to write on spec is extremely personal to me, but it's also a worthy story to be told and shared with worldwide audiences that seek alternatives to the repetitive and uninspired mainstream that bombards screens of all sizes.

I write and make films because I'm a storyteller and want my stories to appeal the intellect and reach for the soul. My interest in the fantastic is not to escape reality, but to deconstruct it. The thing that makes fiction as true as reality is emotion. If the writer feels it, if the performer feels it and if the audience feels it, then it's true.

My favorite recent episodic shows are MR. ROBOT, THE KNICK, THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, BETTER CALL SAUL, PENNY DREADFUL, OUTLANDER, DARK and NARCOS, all of which have elements similar to my work and preferred themes.

I currently prepare a couple of short film productions and I'm open to writing and directing assignments in film, TV and digital media, both in English and Spanish.